Horizontal and vertical maxillary osteotomy stability, in cleft lip and palate patients, using allogeneic bone graft.

Objective: This study was carried out to evaluate maxillary stability after orthodontic-surgical treatment of patients with cleft lip and palate. Cephalometric analysis was applied to two different groups, with and without allogeneic bone graft.

Methods: The sample comprised 48 patients with cleft lip and palate.

Social integration and inclusion after pre-maxilla surgical repositioning in patients with bilateral cleft palate and lip.

Unlabelled: Bilateral alveolar process fissure causes important functional and aesthetical limitations and thus difficulties in terms of social and family integration and interaction for these patients.

Aim: (A) to assess motivations and expectations Treatment-wise and (B) to assess social inclusion and integration brought about by the surgery.

Materials And Methods: retrospective observational study involving 50 participants recruited among the patients submitted to the pre-maxilla repositioning procedure from January of 2003 to July of 2005 at the Centro de Atendimento Integral ao Fissurado Lábio-Palatal in Curitiba (CAIF), Paraná, and an assessment questionnaire was used.

Surgical repositioning of the premaxilla with bone graft in 50 bilateral cleft lip and palate patients.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate a modified surgical technique for premaxilla repositioning with concomitant autogenous bone grafting in bilateral trans-foramen cleft lip and palate patients.

Patients And Methods: The study included 50 bilateral trans-foramen cleft lip and palate patients. Bone graft was harvested from the mandibular symphysis in 24 patients.

Use of allogeneic bone graft in maxillary reconstruction for installation of dental implants.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of the application of allogenous bone at the maxillomandibular reconstructions for future rehabilitation with dental implants. The patients were submitted to reconstruction of maxilla, using allogeneic bone grafts, in 3 different techniques: onlay grafts for lateral ridge augmentation, onlay and particulate bone for sinus lift grafting, and particulate alone for sinus lift grafts. Clinical and radiographic control was done at the postoperative phase for at least 8 months, until the patient could be submitted to the installation of dental implants.